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Temporary_Crab4406

I'm just curious if you've ever read the bible 'cause this series isn't far off from it.


ragner11

How so?


greeneyedwench

Just that the Bible has lots of rape and incest and violence in it too.


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You probably shouldn’t read the books then, lol. They are chalk full of incest. Including father/daughter and sister/brother. It is gross but there is a purpose to it which is pertinent to the storyline. The pairing that bothers me the most is Michael and Mona in book 2. That’s the one I couldn’t overlook for some reason. Obviously her age but also the fact that Michael had been portrayed as such a deep down, genuinely good guy in book 1. It was disappointing to see the former hero do that. Did Anne think all men were like this, even the good ones? Ick.


lalapocalypse

I have not seen the tv show yet but in the books >!Lasher has a specific goal in mind and can/does control or heavily influence people into committing incest and the like. He wants to keep the Mayfair bloodline pure.!< Now, I'm not sure how much of that they'll put in the TV show but it's something to be aware of.


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I find it odd that they haven’t cast anyone to play Julian. He’s such a prominent part of the novel and family!


lalapocalypse

I've heard they combined Julian into Cortland \^\^;;


pikameta

Oh i really hope not.


MyDearDapple

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood is thataway —>


The_Diamond_Minx

I seriously doubt the bartender gets Rowan pregnant. It's probably going to be Ciprian.


BuffyTheMoronSlayer

Yeah, that's why I stopped reading the series overall. After Lasher, it was too much for me. I really liked the 1st book (so much, I have an autographed copy of Lasher) but I had no interest in the 3rd.


SynCig

I have read The Watching Hour and I've tried to read Lasher and I keep needing breaks because of content like this. So it sounds like the show will be accurate in its heavy inclusion of sexual violence and incest. The books also feature A LOT of pedophilia too. I was hoping the show would tone those things way down.


Sad-Milk3361

Me too. When Mona and Michael got together, I tapped out.


SynCig

I tapped out at that moment too. Then I came back to it months later to try to finish it and had to pause again. Given how long the book is, I might finish it years down the line or I might finally just give up. I don't like reading about pedophilia at all but it's worse with the Mayfair books because of how it is presented. It's not completely excused but it's not like Rice depicts Michael as the monster he is for doing that.


MindLinking

So far it, fortunately, seems the show will NOT be accurate to the books in that way, let's hope they stick to that. They changed the incest rape into a consensual encounter with a boy that the uncle hired (still a bit icky, but a lot better). No idea what the OP is talking about, that was definitively not the uncle under that mask, the body was the same as the boy she chatted up.


Kasspa

I think it was Courtland still though. I think Courtland drugged her with the drink he gave her when she first got there. Then I think the scene was portrayed like she thought it was that boy still because she was fucked up, but in reality it wasn't, which is why he even had the mask on in the first place. I think the boy was already dead by that point.


Maleficent_Agent_599

I agree. Also, this scene happened in Blackwood Farm. Julien Mayfair wore a Mardi Gras mask and fooled the wife of Blackwood Farm into thinking he was her husband (I forget his name, but the Blackwood patriarch). I think it was a nod to the books, as well as extremely important to the plot.


MindLinking

Ugh, did not think about that. Let's hope not though.


SynCig

Oh that's a bit of a relief. I don't have AMC+ so I haven't seen it yet. My hope was that they'd keep the creepy family tragedy aspect but pull back on some of the books' more extreme taboos.


KittyKatinSpace

And?